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DVD with Movie and data photos?

Jan 9, 2006 12:42PM PST

Here's my question: Can you create a DVD that has a movie that a DVD Player (consumer electronic one not the one attached to your computer) can recognize and play and still have a data portion that you can add photos to as data so people can copy them to their computers as files to add to their photo collections? I'm trying to avoid having to create a movie DVD and a photo CD/DVD. If it is possible what software (and hardware?) do I need to do this in a Windows environment, and where is some instructions or a how to guide to accomplish this?

Windows XP
Athlon64 4000+
NEC DVD RW
1GB Mem
250 GB hdd
Plenty of DVD media

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mixing dvd movie and data
Jan 9, 2006 2:06PM PST

The short answer is no. When you author a movie to dvd, your software must finalize it to make it playable on free standing dvd players. At that point, no further changes can be made to your disc. Dvd discs are dirt cheap though. Write your pictures to a dvd data disc or cd data disc and send that along for the users to access on their computers.

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Yes. I have such that I made.
Jan 9, 2006 9:26PM PST

It's done with either the Ulead.com offerings, Photodex.com and others. It's not a stock feature such it could be done wrong and create a support headache but in no uncertain words, this can be done and I've done it.

I will not offer any step by step since it's all a matter of using software that offer such.

I can even duplicate the files on my DVD back to the hard disk, add a new directory and put them on a fresh DVD+R, close session and it plays on my DVD player and I have the photos with free software such as CDBURNERXP. Tips? a. Closed session only, and try ISO-1.

Bob